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General - (fb2k) / Re: Any way to retain the duration played as you switch to another track?
Last post by Defender -Happy to hear you approve! I think others may enjoy the component too so I published it on my page: https://foobar.hyv.fi/?view=foo_retain_playtime.
Thx. This is really helpful and very easy to use.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: External Tags
Last post by aelklirion -4
Support - (fb2k) / Re: Foobar2000 v2.* playback sound quality lower than v1.X
Last post by Globares -A note: you can load both tracks into fb2k (either v1 or v2), select both, right click, Utilities > ABX tracks and you can do a ABX blind test to see if you can actually tell the difference between the two tracks. Please consider doing this and posting your ABX results!These samples are too close. Actually I downloaded the ABX utility to check if the "limiter" feature of it would help (it allows to play just a short piece and quickly switch between the samples), but no. I wonder if the author of the recordings can tell the difference listening on his own system. It doesn't mean that my original statement regarding the v1/v2 differences is false! I'm confident since the difference is too big for placebo effect.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_enhanced_spectrum_analyzer
Last post by TF3RDL -Killing all relevant details makes your plugin just a kid toy.While there is some merit for 1/3rd octave bands and 1/1st octave bands as well as the smoothing of the spectrum visualization (e.g. reducing the visual clutter) especially when you focused on the spectral trends instead, unnecessary smoothing do kill off some of the relevant details
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Lossless / Other Codecs / Re: HALAC (High Availability Lossless Audio Compression)
Last post by Porcus -7
FLAC / Re: FLAC v1.4.x Performance Tests
Last post by Porcus -Is there any particular reason why 64-bit flac.exe should be so much faster than 32-bit?
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Lossless / Other Codecs / Re: HALAC (High Availability Lossless Audio Compression)
Last post by Hakan Abbas -Could you release a new version with a "-high" argument which gets a bit higher compression ratio than default but 25-50% slower compression and decompression speed?
The graph above shows the change of compression ratio since the first version of HALAC. HALAC is a speed-oriented study and the last thing I want to compromise on speed is. The lossless compression rate of audio data is really limited in most cases.
SQUEEZE CHART is an archive that also contains different types of music used in audio compression tests. It gives an idea in a general sense. Since the first version, there has been an improvement of about 1% in the compression ratio at the same speeds (encode has been slightly faster). At extremely high speeds, this is really not bad. Depending on the current situation, it is a little difficult to predict how much further progress can be made.
HIGH mode has been requested from different people before. I will focus on the compression ratio in later versions. Because I've already mentioned that there is a little more space in this regard.
I started to get interested in the compression ratio with version 0.2.6. However, I had to enter the Player and DLL topic in accordance with the incoming requests. Now, as soon as I have time, I am trying to complete the new dynamic library I have developed for HALAC in a flexible and error-free way. Changes are also made to the file structure and working style in accordance with incoming requests.
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3rd Party Plugins - (fb2k) / Re: foo_enhanced_spectrum_analyzer
Last post by mycroft -10
Listening Tests / Re: Personal blind sound quality comparison of xHE-AAC, Ogg Vorbis, and TSAC
Last post by Kamedo2 -ahaha, wow, TSAC-encoded files look painful to listen to!
Please note that TSAC used only 1/18th of the disk space of these competitors.